Playlist Friday: A Canadian Indie Halloween

It’s that time of the year again where I pull out the playlist of spooky creepy songs for Halloween. This playlist began back on the old CBC Music site when we could make playlists on it. I kept adding to it on there each year. When they got rid of the playlists, I transferred what I could over to Spotify and then added some more tracks and then added some more again this year. It has now grown to a playlist of 119 songs that run for 7 hr and 31 min. Whether you need music for a Halloween party, to entertain you while you hand out candy or just to get you into the Halloween spirit, we have you covered. Demons, ghosts, vampires, monsters and more make an appearance. I hope you enjoy the playlist and have a spooktacular creepy Halloween.

I saw the Medium article about McInnes and Keeler last night. The response is interesting, I think Keeler, even as a mixed-race father of two is going to have a hard time distancing himself from the alt-right once he’s been associated with them.

GarfieldUK
October 27, 2017 at 06:40

I have updated most of yesterdays releases (I could only find Majid Jordan – The Space Between on itunes)

Benoit from Ottawa
October 27, 2017 at 06:44

garf, see my comments on FB, under your post, and Justin Faubert’s.

One thing that really ticks me off in general is that so many people on FB think that their one idea is THE thing that the other guy needs to do, or should do, or should not do.

Yet I don’t think I’m the only one who realises that, in the actual world, things are so complex, shaded, personal, and mostly unknown to third-hand-hearers that it’s ridiculous to imagine that I, that we, know best. If we were being criticised like that, we’d immediately think “those people have no idea what they’re writing about”. Yet so many immediately pass judgment, and hard, on the basis of hearsay.

That’s all for now. Breakfast calls, and good ol’ Friday Morning Cartunes is on. Later!

darbarspecial
October 27, 2017 at 06:49

Good morning! Thanks Janet.

I saw that article last night as well and wasn’t sure what to think of it. I believe Keeler’s response is sincere but it does seem a lot like the people that stood by and didn’t say anything with other’s shitty behavior.

darbar, re your post on Keeler: Yeah, sure, but life’s like that: everyone learns to put up with aspects of people they don’t like (and you know this, I’m absolutely sure), it’s called “getting along”.

However, the web, um, writing on the web seems to thrive on invented either-ors that don’t actually exist, or not as much, in real life. I’m tending to think the web is subject to being as fake as when the strumpf was on teevee. (For instance, one of the persons defended against calls his explanation “really gay”, or something close. WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT? Yet, no-one says a peep about that ridiculous comeback to a pretty-well laid-out explanation.

darbarspecial
October 27, 2017 at 07:39

Most of us do it, I get that. It just makes me think about how maybe we should be calling people out on their crap more. Not just shaking our heads and saying nothing.

There is no way we should read something on Facebook and just blindly believe it as true and bring out the pitchforks. So much crap out there.

God love the internet where you can be as jerky as you want, often without consequence.

Benoit from Ottawa
October 27, 2017 at 07:48

dar, a) thx for response, b) how come you’re up so early??? c) I think things could be analysed in terms of power, including tipping points. Not only is it because of power that some people get away with a lot of crap (and here my thinking goes to the Weinstein case, and others that resemble it some), but — and this may be the most important aspect of the same thing — it’s because of lack of power that it goes on. Real lack of power. “You’ll lose your career” lack of power.

That is why, I think, when what ends up being described as a “tipping point” happens, you can find so many people who’s kept if not silent, at least ‘not public’ about it.

I’m saying, bottom line, that it’s (unfortunately) part and parcel of life. Been like that a long, loooooong time. I don’t see anything changing soon.

Benoit from Ottawa
October 27, 2017 at 07:48

janet, HAH! Baboom, even…

GarfieldUK
October 27, 2017 at 07:57

Did anyone else see Library Voices’ short lived post about the subject

Benoit from Ottawa
October 27, 2017 at 07:58

grf, dg it ‘p!

darbarspecial
October 27, 2017 at 08:08

My schedule has been a bit mixed up lately partly because my son got a job and that is getting me out of bed earlier too. Things will settle down soon and I will go back to sleeping longer.

Yes Weinstein and Jian type situations came to my mind too. It was that part in Keeler’s statement about noticing people distancing themselves more from him that tweaked that thought. There are always people that know that what they are doing is wrong but say nothing long before it comes out. That position of power thing is a good silencer. I don’t believe that because that is the way it has been and change will be hard that we should just accept that. Change doesn’t come easy but it is worth the effort.

I missed the LV thing.

Benoit from Ottawa
October 27, 2017 at 08:20

Well, I sure understand your feelings as expressed in the last two sentences. Belief and hope are there, and are good things. It’s just that belief and hope are so much less powerful than sex and money. And that’s why sex and money (& ‘power’) have been such powerful, undercurrent-type motivators for so long. Human nature, kind of thing.

I mostly see people in power now becoming even more lawyerish, and having most everyone they deal with sign a non-disclosure agreement to prevent being accused of wrongdoings 15 years later. (I’m not saying this applies to any of those cases we’ve just discussed, but these days, you could — can — ruin someone’s reputation (life) via the web and social media.)